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| Hayden Dingman / PCWorld: |
Samsung and Oculus announce $99 consumer Gear VR with support for Samsung's 2015 flagship phones and a redesigned trackpad, shipping in November — Samsung's new Gear VR virtual reality headset only costs $99 — And even better, the new Gear VR works with all of Samsung's flagship Galaxy phones released in 2015.
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Samsung Tomorrow, TechCrunch, PCWorld, The Verge, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, eWeek, SamMobile, PCWorld, Android Authority, Re/code and Gizmodo. Tweets: @iansherr
| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Oculus partners with Alienware, Dell, and Asus to offer “Oculus Ready” PCs for less than $1K at launch — ‘Oculus Ready’ PC program offers VR-ready rigs for less than $1,000 — Oculus Ready is a new program that offers officially licensed, Oculus-branded PCs from Alienware, Dell and Asus.
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PC Gamer, Oculus, TrustedReviews, KitGuru and The Tech Report
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Minecraft Windows 10 edition will launch on Oculus Rift in 2016 — VR Minecraft announced for 2016 at Oculus Connect conference — More Oculus Touch details confirmed; “200,000” developers have registered. … The second day of this year's Oculus Connect conference …
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The Verge, Engadget, Gamasutra, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, GameSpot, Polygon, IGN, Digital Trends, SlashGear, CNET and Ars Technica
Tweets: @oculus, @notch, @notch and @id_aa_carmack
| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
iOS ad blocker Crystal will get a flat monthly fee to let through ads that are on Adblock Plus owner Eyeo's paid whitelist — Propelled By Apple, Ad Blocking Cottage Industry Emerges — Software promises to block ads, and in some cases allow “acceptable” ones
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The Awl, Murphy Apps, The Next Web, The Digital Reader, The Verge, Macworld, App Advice, AppleInsider, iMore, Fortune and Slashdot. Tweets: @startupljackson. See also Mediagazer
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Crystal ad-blocking iPhone app leaves Safari unable to fully render e-commerce sites of major retailers like Walmart and Sears — Apple's ad-blocking move causes big problems for retailers like Walmart — When Apple AAPL last week released a new operating system that permits ad-blocking extensions …
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The Overspill, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Lifehacker, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @noir and @dsilverman
| iFixit: |
iPhone 6s teardown reveals smaller 1715 mAh battery, x-ray of Taptic Engine, 3D Touch display — iPhone 6s Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — In Progress — This guide is a work in progress.| Jackie Dove / The Next Web: |
Adobe announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 14 with 4K video editing, motion titles, tools to remove camera shake and haze, and more — Adobe updates Elements hobbyist photo and video apps with more pro-level features — As a consumer photo/video editing package …
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9to5Mac, iMore, AppleInsider, MacRumors and Engadget
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iOS 9's space-saving “app slicing” disabled for now, will return in future update — iCloud bug affects users who are restoring backups to new devices. — Back in June, we wrote a bit about App Thinning, a collection of iOS 9 features that are supposed to make iOS 9 apps take up less space on iDevices.| Office Blogs: |
Microsoft launches Invite for iPhone, an app for scheduling meetings, in the US and Canada; coming soon to Android and Windows Phone — Invite—the easiest way to organize meetings on the go — We all know that organizing group meetings can be tricky—especially when you're on the move.
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The Verge, Patently Apple, Ubergizmo, Neowin, WinBeta, Network World, iMore, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and Microsoft News
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg Business: |
Pure Storage seeks to raise $450M in IPO at $16-18/share, for a valuation of up to $3.33B — Pure Storage Seeks to Raise as Much as $450 Million in IPO — Flash-storage maker would be valued at up to $3.33 billion — Company to offer 25 million shares at $16 to $18 apiece
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SiliconANGLE, RTTNews, 24/7 Wall St., Investor's Business Daily, NASDAQ.com, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @danprimack
| Bloomberg Business: |
Behind the fake traffic schemes using bots for fraudulent ad clicks that will cost advertisers $6.3B this year — The Fake Traffic Schemes That Are Rotting the Internet — Ron Amram has been in the brand marketing business for about 20 years. In the 2000s he was media director …
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Fortune, broadstuff, Marketing Land, Boing Boing and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @kfury, @business, @kianganz, @shloky, @dannysullivan, @sriramk, @shannonpareil, @felixgillette, @jayrosen_nyu, @caseyjohnston, @tyrangiel and @mathewi
See also Mediagazer| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
FanDuel acquires eSports fantasy platform AlphaDraft, which will continue operating — FanDuel Acquires eSports Company AlphaDraft, Also Jumps Into Competitive Video Gaming — Aren't business rivalries fun? — Just one day after fantasy sports site DraftKings announced … Sponsor Posts
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